[Gllug] Which laptop?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:04:57PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2001 15:52:16 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:28:44PM +0100, Leigh Mason wrote:
> > > the only thing that might be a problem with the vaio range (apart from the
> > > poor battery life
> > I get 3 and a half hours on mine.  Is that bad?  Previous laptops have
> > only done 2.
> 
> *blink* 3 and a half hours from a single battery? I tend to get 50
> minutes from my single battery in X, 1hr30 when just in console, and
> about four hours in X with the triple battery pack I've got; and all
> that's on the 505 so it's only an 11" display. I'm surprised your
> battery lasts so long - what do you do on your machine?

Well, after playing Powermanga for 45 minutes (in KDE 2) I have 72%
battery life yet.  That's typical.  I usually get about two hours 45 in
X and over 3 hours (up to 3hrs 30) at the console.

That's with no peripherals plugged in.  The CD-ROM and Floppy suck a
little more out, depending on use.

What I can't fix is apm's assessment of how much time I have left.  One
second it says 6 minutes left (on 72% charge), the next it's 21 hours.

-- 
Bruce

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a
Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web...
		-- Tim Berners-Lee
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